Abductors of Kaduna students begin direct negotiations with parents

Bandits who abducted thirty-nine students from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, in Igabi local government area of Kaduna State, have begun direct negotiations with parents of the students.
A security expert in the state, Abel Audu, who confirmed it stated that the bandits are reaching out to individual parents and demanding ransom from them since the refusal of Governor Nasir El-Rufai, and his government to negotiate with them and vowed to prosecute anyone who does.

One of the parents also confirmed that the bandits called him and permitted him to speak with his daughter who cried and pleaded for the ransom to be paid otherwise she would be dead, while another parent stated that the bandits threatened him with never seeing his child again unless he and the other parents mobilised N500 million for their release.